March 15, 2012

We Didn't Start the Fire(wall)



Well, hello there, boys and girls, it's time for another sing-song, sing-along!


Previously, we destroyed paid homage to a Bob Dylan song in the guise of a BSides security conference tribute http://shpantzer.blogspot.com/2011/07/cons-they-are-changin.html and that seemed to go over like a lead balloon, so let's try this again...  Once more, with FEEEEEEELing.


Today, we point our favorite secure (ahem) browser to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g (open in another tab), support the original artist by watching the official video with a 30 second commercial, then follow along with our very own mangled, er, um, I mean ShpanTazered (TM) version of this Billy Joel classic!  


The original song was difficult to follow, with so many vague references to historical events and figures.  I left some of the original references in there, just to be confusing, but switched up the rest for an infosec audience (who else reads this ridiculous blog...)  


Security types will certainly be more familiar with Operation Bot Roast than Santayana (who's THAT?) and with the infamous and historically significant Paris Hilton Sidekick hack than with any 'trouble in the Suez' nonsense (where's that again...?)


We usually look at the world through the hazy filters of geek rock star practitioners and analysts, malware outbreaks, advances in hacking tools, networking breakthroughs and disruptive technologies.  Not actual rock stars and you know, shooting wars, and whatever else people pay attention to... We're special little infosec snowflakes!  Cuz I said so.


It's been a long, wild ride, intertubes, so have a drink of water, warm up your vocal chords, strap in and try to sing this techie tongue-twister to the Billy beat!


Good luck, 


gAli G AKA Gal Shpantzer



We Didn't Start the Fire(wall)

Hacktivism, PGP, Red China, Entropy
BlackBerry, Neuromancer, PageRank SEO

Dan Kaminsky, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Max Vision
Red Pill, Blue Pill, CISSP

RADIUS, Logic Bomb, Pain Ray, Johnny Long
Gene Schultz, The King And I, when do we stop SQLi ?

Robert Morris, Vaccine, England's got the same queen
DVD Jon, Liberace, Operation Bot Roast

We didn't start the firewall
It was always burning
Since the URL’s been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Pirate Party, Rybolov, Nimda and CSRF
Blaster LoveBug, John The Ripper, Communist Bloc

SRI, BBN, PDF bugs round the bend,
D-N-S Fails, Synchronize the Clocks

Stuxnet, LASER Beam, BSides’ got a winning team
Hoffacino, Xerox PARC, Kristin Paget, Bletchley Park

Lycos, LulzSec, Altavista, Cuckoo’s Egg
Freedom Frisk, Howard Schmidt, Paris Hilton’s Sidekick

We didn't start the firewall
It was always burning
Since the URL’s been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Cyber Storm, AirCrack, Mickey Mantle, ENIAC
Mitnick, System High, It’s the year of PKI

Keyloggers, Stacheldracht, Operation ShadyRAT
BitLocker, SecuTwits, Sony-BMG Rootkit

SE Linux, @Beaker, EFF, Mafia
SIPRNET, Lamo, Ripco is a no-go

U2, WikiLeaks, IANA and IRC
Securosis, RAND Corp, Hacker’s Manifesto

We didn't start the firewall
It was always burning
Since the URL's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Zimmerman, LANMan, Stranger in a Strange LAN
Webcam, KLM, APT invasion

(David) Bell-Lapadula, Foursquare check-in mania
Vint Cerf, Trojans, GPUs make BitCoins

JavaScript, Active X, British Politician sex
RSA: Blown away! What else do I have to say?!?

We didn't start the firewall
It was always burning
Since the URLs been turning
We didn't start the firewall
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

451, brute forcing, Kerberos is back again
Pick locks, teraflops, Captain Crunch, DevOps
Begin, Reagan, Cross Domain, hackers bringing Titan Rain
Ayatollas in Iran, US in Afghanistan

9/11, Sally Ride, Biba Model, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDE, Crack, iOS
Got collisions in the SHA, China's under martial law
BYOD, browser wars, I can't take it anymore!

We didn't start the firewall
It was always burning
Since the URL’s been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
 

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